Illinois Quick Hits: State police investigating 2025 fatal ICE-involved shooting
(The Center Square) – Illinois State Police have begun investigating the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez last September by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Franklin Park.
In a statement to The Center Square, ISP said the Franklin Park Police Department requested ISP’s Public Integrity Task Force to investigate. ISP said the case will be turned over to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office when complete.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said last year that Villegas Gonzalez was in the country illegally, attempted to flee, drove at law enforcement officers and dragged the ICE officer with his car before the shooting occurred.
RICO ACT AUTHOR, MADIGAN JUDGE’S FATHER PASSES AWAY
The law school at the University of Notre Dame says funeral services will be later this year for longtime professor George Robert Blakey, who helped draft the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
The RICO statute is credited with playing a significant role in criminal and civil proceedings involving organized crime, gang-related activity, white-collar offenses and corruption in public office.
Blakey’s son, John Robert Blakey, presided over the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in 2024 and 2025.
George Robert Blakey died in Chicago on May 1 at the age of 90.
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